Bush Hill Park

Your Safer Neighbourhoods Team is a group of Met police officers dedicated to serving your community. The team is made up of officers based in your area or 'ward', supported by additional officers from the wider area.

We work closely with local authorities, community leaders and residents to decide our policing priorities for the area. This helps us to find useful, long-term solutions to local problems, while maintaining our wider focus on reducing crime across London.

To speak to your local team about policing issues, and find out how you can get involved, you can email them at BushHillPark.SNT@met.police.uk.

In an emergency always call 999.

If it is not an emergency, you can report crime online at www.met.police.uk or dial 101.

We regularly speak to local residents to establish what issues they may be experiencing in the area. The word cloud below represents the issues that residents of Bush Hill Park have highlighted as priorities for the area recently. Word clouds are graphical representations of word frequency that give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently. The larger the word in the visual below the more common the word was in the local survey.

We seek to tackle the issues raised by you and your communities in your local area. To 'Have your say' on local issues, please click on the button below to complete a short survey.

Violence Related Priority

Anti social behaviour caused by members of the public congregating in the street with modified cars. Using vehicles in a manner likely to cause alarm and distress or annoyance to the public. Also casuing issues in the playing field.

Attend car meets, issue Sec 59 Police reform Act notices. Op Ghostfreak working with MO8 roads policing team. Seizure of vehicles with no insurance. Working with council partners and private business to make car parks less desirable due to mitigaton option such as speed humps, lockable gates etc. Cycle patrols to continue.

Bush Hill Park Priority 2 - Motor Vehicle Crime

Village road and environs have ben identified as having issues with theft from and theft of MV.

Intelligence led patrols of this area have been and continue to be conducted. Stops include one male in a uninsured car which was seized.

Bush Hill Priority 3 - Burglary

Conduct High Visibility Presence. Attended to speak with victims of burglary via reassurance calls, observe for cameras in the vicinity and encourage home owners to forward possible audio visual evidence (via EVIDENCE invite)to police. Engagement via social media (Online Watch Link & X), give crime prevention advice to victims and letting the public aware of related incidents in the area. Getting people to engage in new strategies to improving their home security.

Officers from this ward will shortly undergo cycle training, this will give the team more flexibilty to attend and patrol hot spot areas. Recent night time deployments of the areas have allowed officers to patrol at times when this crime is more likely to be committed.

In an emergency always call 999. If it is not an emergency, you can report crime online at www.met.police.uk or dial 101.